Praying and counting blessings....
It touches me to tears to see Sinead on the blessings thread while in such horrid pain in the hospital...
And Saffy....praying and believing relationship with your mom in law is being renewed as we speak....
Thanking God for Jackie and her family to be safe and secure after the recent home invasion....
And intertwined in the sadness, hopes, and prayers, we have a praise report from Mark to be congratulated , which keeps the emotions somehow in balance, spiritually speaking..
and wishing for safe travels on Monday dear Mark....

A very inspired,
Rae

good day all
allow me to introduce myself eva

i am thankful and blessed
overwhelmed by the positive state
you maintain
i am happy that you mark are blessed
and can write with such beauty grace love human kindness
my eldest child sara is a poet
a wonderful beautiful person
i tell all a few more sara's in the world
it would be a better place
i came across nt back in august
in the forum spinal disorder
to eventually enter this forum is a blessing
getting on your knees as you do and certainly blessed
even in the time of horrific situations
as you so eloquently remind me
God Jesus Christ our savior
has never left my side
as i wake up
most times bed ridden
as pain strips my body of simple movement
having thoughts i never imagined would enter my brain
and of course i aware that the pain has taken me there
is embarrassing to say the least
i am blessed with 4 children
a beautiful grandchild eva 6months old
blessed are those who enter the kingdom of God
and how even in the sadist times in our lives
it is that we ask and submit to his will
give us this day our daily bread
your words remind me not to be angry
and for that i thank you
i am blessed to be able just enough tim at the keyboard
and say
thank you
thank you
thank you
it is a sunny day blessed and able to see the sunset
up on the 16th floor
and as it goes down i will be thankful
wishing you, your family, and loved ones and all well


eva

Thank you for sharing the Word. Even though we go through difficulty, I'm thankful He places people in our lives to support us and encourage us.
Blessings to you!

Eva that was such a beautiful thing to share, and what a better way to do it than on the BLESSINGS thread!

Very Touched
Rae

You open your soul and pour sweet the innermost portion for all of us to know how YOU are blessed and it is SO good! You bless all of us in sharing these closely held tender thoughts. Grace is obviously yours as well, and it feels so comforting to know you have that peace within even though there have been struggles we most all know well regarding or derived from the solitary confining ugliness of pain.

You define the reason this thread began; namely, the open recognition and acknowledgment that we who suffer are nevertheless blessed and through those blessings we see the joy in our lives. God is so good to show us the soft fresh grassy glade near the stream flowing with pure and cool water. When we may come here to this thread and rest just a bit, we may take away some of that shared grace for ourselves and thus live it in our own lives more openly observing the blessings we live. How blessed that is.

This morning, I shared the privilege of witnessing miraculous joy crossing the face of a surgeon as he reported to gathered family and friends the result of his work on a dear young lady in our church family. She is a mother in her thirties. Has the 2.0 children statistics like to know. A husband who is clearly of the Lord. Extended family who dote upon all of them. Her name is Andrea.

Today was the surgery following weeks of hospitalization, radiation, chemotherapy, PET scans, and the like as all was readied for the removal of bowel cancer found and which was feared to have metastasized to the liver which showed a spot.

We have all prayed and continue thus. I explained to the waiting room nurse we had all been praying for Andi, and she said she prays for each patient she will have that next morning before she arrives for the floor shift.

After surgery the surgeon had joy to share. BLESSINGS for Thanksgiving. And we rejoiced, gathering in a circle of held hands with the nurse of whom I wrote. It seems the liver examined by the surgeon this morning was clean, not just clean, but the clenest he has ever examined! Then he reported on the cancerous tumor which was to be removed. His word were exactly "it had melted away." Melted away. A cancerous body so riddled that Andi had been sick and hospitalized, fed by tube. A disease not usually found in one so young. A disease which appeared to have gained access to the body freeway....... GONE. Scrapings of tissue were taken gently from each place for pathology to make sure what if anything must now be done. The Port was emplaced, so chemo may be administered more easily on Andi if it must.
Melted away. Blessing? Absolutely.

As I drove to work [yes, that is a blessing also] I was inspired to and did write a song. Got the lead sheet all down, the lyric line in place, and gave it to a friend this afternoon to score an accompaniement for use as a Praise Song. The title? Hurt Melted Away. The Lyric line follows in a bit.... God is SO GOOD,


Hurt Melted Away
MRidder 20111109

We glorify You that our hurts can melt away.
We praise and glorify, for another day.
All praise to You, we do glorify;
All praise to You, our hurts melt away.


Simple..... yes, but that was God's glorious message today, and I was certain it had to be put to paper. So, getting to the office, I took a piece from the printer, drew the staff lines, lay out the notes, wrote in the lyrics. All praise to God, for your hurts can melt away, perhaps not as rapidly as this morning demonstrated, but in acknowledging blessings, each of us take steps in the right direction.

Last one for tonight: So blessed was I that at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport yesterday the TSA guard asked "How are you?" Great entry for six words of faith "I feel blessed, how are you?" She acquired this greatest of smiles and rewarded me with the light so shining from her soul as she shared that she too feels blessed, was so glad I had asked, and said she would share that same greeting with others! What a blessing. Imagine a whole world in which we are able to lay down arms and acknowledge we are each blessed..... could this be a better place? For a few moments in that line yesterday, I was certain God was smiling!

I feel blessed, how about you?
Mark56

blessings

thank you all for your kind words
certainly not a mistake
my heart pounds sooo hard
for what the unknown brings today
as biopsy will bring news
and could not sleep with everything i'm feeling
i say my prayers
hoping to fall into a deep sleep
nowhere to be found
and i have this beautiful miracle
you share
it doesn't take much
to put a smile on my face
this most of all
was not a mistake
we are blessed in many ways
it's taking the time
a moment in your day
although it is difficult for me to trust
i do believe in human kindness
so few so far away and just when i think
i can't go on anymore
i remember telling my children
there is no can't
you either do
or you don't
knowing right from wrong
staying stuck in can't is not a way of living life
i am blessed by all replies
you picked me up
and i see
all but a test
for our God to trust in thee
i am blessed and reminded
what kind words of trust
mean for me
it is almost 6 in the morning
time to get ready soon
and while in the hospital
i blessed to remember
the miracle you wrote
and hope her future with her children
is something she will treasure
for when my children are doing well
i'm somewhat at ease
i miss my dog!

thank you all
it may be a rainy day
but the sun always shines
have a blessed beautiful
day

dear friends

today is hard
blessed are the hero's
that have honored us
with their lives
so we the people
live in this country
we are in tough times
but for those who served
and because of them
we are blessed
in this free country

good day to all

blessings for the day

i am blessed and reminded who is in charge
and how plans are not as we think they should go

i am blessed to be reunited with my sister for plans were changed

i am blessed and reminded who is really driving
my bus

i am blessed and reminded that the everyday trials are just
a test of our faith

i am blessed to have met new understanding persons who may feel as i do for i am never alone

i am blessed and reminded that there was a man called Jesus
Christ who walked this earth believer or not all he taught was
kindness and goodness how can anyone deny that

i am blessed and reminded of true suffering as he was crucified and riddled with ultimate pain and suffering
as he walked this earth

take me out of my own way dear Lord keep reminding me and humble me so i can feel your warmth in my heart

for only you know who i really am

i am blessed with another day

may i step aside and allow you the grace of your prayer i say
and give us this day our daily bread

he absolutely filled me up on the day of my biopsy

i was blessed and didn't even see it until i stopped and thought how plans for that day were screwed up
only to realize divine intervention

it isn't just by chance i am here

i am blessed as we all are

only to be reminded again who is really in charge

may you see as i did

reminded again

have a blessed day

For we all have within us the means to be a blessing to others;
to proclaim unto others we are blessed,
causing all of humanity whom we encounter to stop, take stock, acknowledge
and it is forever a blessing to me to see the smiles and hear others
who encountering me, are reminded they, too, have blessings,
no matter their background.

I am blessed Eva has seized ahold of the recognition of blessings,
may you, Eva, in this be blessed as you glorify He who ultimately blesses.

Every moment I encounter another and inquire as to their blessings, it is so transforming to see a face carved in stone melt into a beautiful smile as they acknowledge with gratitude they, too, are blessed.

I am blessed in the transformation the very recognition of blessings has brought into my life, for I was once a year ago lost, and now have been recliamed by my Shepherd, returned to the fold.

I am blessed today is another day in which I may once again bring thoughts of blessing to those who have not paused to contemplate it for themselves yet today.

God is good, and I feel blessed to have my Boston Scientifiic SCS which grants me a continual blessing of pain management without the side effects of drowsiness producing medication.

Mark56

".....Take me out of my own way dear Lord......."

I like that Eva. Those few words really say alot.

Rae